Why LA’s ICE riots reveal decades of California’s political decay

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : According to NBC News exit polls, Trump won the support of 45% of Hispanics, a 13-point increase from 2020 and a new record for a Republican presidential nominee.
58% : In the November election, President Trump made significant gains with Latino voters, especially younger men.
41% : Hugo Soto-Martinez chided Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell for giving “safe passage to ICE.”
41% : She said Trump is going after “people who work every day, people who are paying taxes, who are raising their families, who are supporting education.”
41% : In one study cited in an analysis for the legislature this year, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that about 15% of the 5.8 million students enrolled in K-12 public schools are either undocumented or have at least one undocumented parent.
36% : AP Democrats around the state have been relentlessly repeating anti-Trump messages, from denouncing the president for deploying the National Guard to accusing him of sending ICE to kidnap innocent people.
26% : Mayor Karen Bass has spent a week blaming President Trump for disrupting her city, where she insists “everything was fine” until the federal government decided to enforce the law.
7% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this week openly challenged President Trump and his White House to arrest him following days of verbal barbs traded between the two leaders.

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